"I can FEEL you!" Mary shouted, as the group of students practiced
a psychic reading on her. "I can feel everyone's energy as you read
me!"

She seemed surprised at the intensity of the energy she was feeling from the
group that formed the psychic development class. We smiled knowingly; new
students are always surprised the first time they feel it. After three years of
meeting together, we'd come to expect this result.

But we were no ordinary psychic circle. Mary was in Florida, a thousand miles
away from where I sat in Pennsylvania, and the rest of the group was scattered
throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. We were meeting weekly in an
online psychic development class, and these past years showed us wonders that we
would have been skeptical about in the past.

I came to the Internet in 1993, looking to share ideas about intuition and
holistic healing topics with like-minded folks. I had been psychic since
childhood and it was often difficult to find others who shared my experiences
and wanted to talk about psychic topics. I was looking for a "supportive
few." Little did I know that floodgates would open and I'd find hundreds of
others like me in the online world.

It all began when I signed up for CompuServe in 1993 and started meeting
people all over the world through the message boards and chat rooms. Chatting
online with others was a great new experience. One day, chatting with a woman
named Jean from California, I got a vivid image of an older woman in my mind. I
tried to push it away, but the vision was insistent. "Can I ask you a
personal question?" I asked her. "Sure, go ahead," she typed in
reply. Taking a moment to really look at the image in my mind, I began,
"I'm seeing a woman, about 60 years old, brown hair with graying near the
bangs and ears, maybe 5'6", medium build, using a cane."

I went on to describe her clothing, her house, and her husband, who
unfortunately was emotionally abusive to her. The "reading" lasted
about 30 minutes, and in that time, I was 75% correct in the information I
received about Jean's physical appearance and her life. That was the first
unofficial online psychic reading I ever did, completely by accident.

The first time I purposefully tried to do a reading online, I was concerned.
I wondered whether I would have any problems since I had no physical connection
to the querent, as I would in person or on the phone. What if the reading I did
for Jean was just a fluke? Then I remembered: it was a person's energy field the
thing I "read" in a psychic reading. A person's energy creates their
physical form, not the other way around. What I was doing was simply bypassing
the form and going right to the energy that created it, and directly to the
information stored inside that energy field.

The clairvoyant images came like lightening bolts. The intuitive knowing of
people and their situation was nearly instant. I began doing mini-readings
online to test this theory, checking to see if it was repeatable. I could
accurately tell people what they looked like, how they carried their body, what
their current emotional state was, and what life issues they were dealing with
at that moment. I decided to take it a step further. If I could get basic
current information about them online, could I also get deeper insight about
them and those other people involved in their life? The answer was a clear,
unequivocal YES! I wasn't just limited to the querent's physical appearance; I
could see their full life in all its dimensions. All this from a computer! I was
amazed, feeling like a scientist who uncovers a wonder drug without even looking
for one.

What began as a simple experiment became a way of life. Every day I'd logon
to chat casually with people and to do online readings. Each day reaffirmed my
conclusions about the ease and clarity of working online.

The next question in my search came readily enough, "Could psychic
skills be taught online?" I had been teaching face-to-face psychic
development classes for quite a while -- could I somehow modify these lessons
and exercises to use in an online chat? I wasn't sure, but I wanted a chance to
find out. Contacting the online forum manager, I asked about teaching an online
psychic development workshop. Within a few short weeks, the Psychic Development
Study Group was born. Over the course of several months, we delved into the
entire world of psychic phenomenon, from clairvoyance to mediumship. The Study
Group eventually met for 84 consecutive weeks before we took a break.

In conjunction with the message-based study group, we decided to meet in a
chat room each week each Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. to practice doing readings
on each other. This live class was another beautiful revelation. People from all
walks of life came to the online class. Some had psychic abilities they wanted
to increase in a methodic manner. Others came because they believed that they
could connect to their intuitive selves if lead through it gently, like an
unfolding flower blossom. Still others came out of curiosity, to see if, indeed,
you could learn psychic skills. They came from across the United States, from
Alaska to Florida. Some even came from Europe, setting their alarms for 2:00
a.m. to attend faithfully.

Within a few weeks, students were doing in-depth psychic readings with each
other, sitting at their own PC in their own home. We'd ask for volunteer
querents, which the students would "scan" in order to pick up energy
and information, using their intuition. Since the class situation was a learning
place, students were not judged whether they were right or wrong in their
readings, only that they continued to try. I watched with pride and humility as
they each began to unfold to greater skills and accuracy.

My "little experiment" in teaching intuition development online had
created an amazing outcome. What I had suspected when first receiving this
online energy was true...we can all learn psychic skills and we can learn them
easily online.

That was several years ago. I no longer do readings, but focus instead on
teaching psychic development online at my own web site, The Seeker's Circle.
Every class brings unfolding of natural talents and skills in the students. And
every new student still says, "I can FEEL you reading me!" Some things
never change.

Karyn Greenstreet is an intuition development instructor and life coach,
living with her husband and five cats. Her web site, The Seeker's Circle (http://www.seekerscircle.com), offers free online intuition chats, as
well as articles and interviews about psychic development.